Ieva Rižė is an interdisciplinary artist based in Vilnius, Lithuania. She graduated with a BA in Monumental Painting and Scenography with Konstantinas Bogdanas and an MA in Contemporary Sculpture from Vilnius Academy of Arts with Deimantas Narkevičius and Laura Kaminskaitė. The artist’s practice began in painting, which later developed into three-dimensional painting and sculptural installations. She also explored performance, attended movement and theatre workshops, and became a member of the Butoh movement and physical theatre troupe Okarukas (2016-2018). She currently works on video, sculptural objects and performative practices, often incorporating text, sound or drawing.

Her work explores the human psyche, temporality, relationships within closed groups and themes of identity and power. Rize’s creative approach is characterised by a quest to reflect the themes of her works through poetics and symbols, and the performativity of text, bodies and their interaction with the environment.

She is intrigued by the space “in-between” – inanimate substance, life form, people, objects and concepts themselves – exploring the dependencies and tensions that tell a story. The aesthetics of her work are often shaped by short- or long-term creative rituals or impulsivity, resulting in an abstraction that evokes the archives of individual imagination.

In 2020, Rižė joined the Interdisciplinary Art Union and was granted the status of artist by the Lithuanian Ministry of Culture. Her work has been exhibited at Medusa (2023), Contemporary Art Centre (2021; 2020), Drifts Gallery (2022), Atletika Gallery (2021), Skalvija Cinema (2021) in Vilnius, as well as at SpLab (2018) in Aarhus, Denmark, and Auditorium Saint-Germain (2017) in Paris.